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I had an "Applause" shallow bowl...Applause=Ovations "second tier" instruments, like fensder/squire...gibson/epiphone. It was quite ok, shallow bowl didn't slip, sound was OK...another one long gone for an Epiphone. I believe I traded for a IBJL Epiphone Casino, which I do like, actually love, that one. Haven't parted with that one, yet. Got the Aplause thing with Amazon "points" . 2 different things, I like the Casino better, and the other Masterbilt flat top...well, it suffices . Miss it, but don't miss it. :)

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Other than the guitars that I have built to sell or give away, I actually have kept everything that I've personally owned. Several of them have gone up dramatically in value and I keep thinking I should sell them. Keep thinking I should.... Keep thinking...

 

My heirs are going to have to sort all of this out.

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Other than the guitars that I have built to sell or give away, I actually have kept everything that I've personally owned. Several of them have gone up dramatically in value and I keep thinking I should sell them. Keep thinking I should.... Keep thinking...

 

My heirs are going to have to sort all of this out.

My 1 and only grandson (so far) likes guitars. My oldest son has moved out with his "family" now, just 1 son. He (my grandson) will be 12 Mid October. They moved to Lewiston Maine (from "here, 20 mikes south approx. from Boston )They seem to like it somewhat better than the little city where I presently reside...less "city troubles" for a young family...My grandson still plays, my oldest son was the clarinet man in the school band. he's 3 years older than my youngest, the "sax" man...They practiced together, jammed...but both being older now, life's responsibilities have weighed them down, a bit , taken them in a different direction. They both still play a bit, but not like when they were in grade school...such is life. :) When I go, their going to really have their work cut out for them :) :) Freeman, I think your instruments are quite spectacular, actually. interesting "builds" and happy you are willing to share with others "here" I have no , or not much of such talent. I guess like all else, you get better the more you practice. I think, if I was to build an instrument "from scratch" , I'd have a hard time parting with it too :)

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Other than the guitars that I have built to sell or give away, I actually have kept everything that I've personally owned. Several of them have gone up dramatically in value and I keep thinking I should sell them. Keep thinking I should.... Keep thinking...

 

My heirs are going to have to sort all of this out.

 

I have a J-45 Granadillo I keep telling myself I'm going to sell. The short scale just somehow doesn't agree with me, although I weirdly have no problem with 24.75" on electrics. Still, this guitar remains in its case, some part of me unwilling to let it go... Yet.

 

I really love the instruments I have now, so I don't much miss my bygone guitars anymore. But one I do wish I could reach for now and then is a Gibson SJ-100 (Bubinga b/s). Just tonally stunning - amazing clarity and brightness without being remotely harsh. I'd pull that thing off the wall and play a chord and just think, "Damn!" Had to sell it when I went sh*t-broke in 2012.

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I had a '73 Tele that was rather unique - it was mocha, but had dark chocolate colored sides, and most mocha Telecasters I've seen don't have that. It needed to be refretted, and instead of having it done, I traded it for a new (at the time) CAR '86 MIJ Custom Telecaster that looked lovely and had an incredible neck on it, but never sounded nearly as good as that old '73. It's definitely one of the guitars I regret selling.

 

I also had a late '70s / early '80s The Paul Firebrand that I bought new but traded for something else that I really wish I had held on to.

 

I've learned my lesson. It's foolish to trade in guitars; it's much better to hang on to them and save up for the next one you want to add to the pile. There's less chance of later regrets that way. ;)

 

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2 my very first electric I bought myself back in the early 70s from a base exchange. The only name it had on it was "Prestige" and it was made in Japan.

 

Looked exactly like this

 

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And then I also traded off a couple guitars, including a L6S for an original/used MIJ ESP The Eclipse. I wish I'd kept the L6S instead. (I never bonded with that ESP.)

 

It looked like this but was more of a brownish red color.

 

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That model was/is considered one of the more oddball Gibsons that never really caught on, but it was the closest to vintage name brand electric guitar I ever owned. After that, you jump forward to '83 in my electric guitar collection. But at that time I was not much of a GAS'r and I figured my LP Studio (which had a bit of a wider neck near the nut) rendered the L6S redundant at best. At the time I traded it off, the blue book value was quite low on those guitars, i.e. somewhere close to around $250. Just wish I had it now.

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Pretty much a tie for two guitars that I miss dearly. First was a guild Blues90 that I sold when I stopped playing for a while and thinned the heard down. This is not mine, but looked identical.

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However the biggest regret EVER of all my music equipment was having to sell my Moonstone M80 with modulus woven graphite neck. I paid $5000 for it around 1980, later got married and then was unemployed and desperate for work. I sold it while in poverty for $250 so I could buy my first computer hard drive that I needed. It was a great decision in that a month later my computer experience from college and at home got me a job in IT at NASA which became my life long career, and the Moonstone sale sealed the deal, but I will never be able to get another. Here is what it looked like except for mine having the graphite neck. The burled maple is stunning up close.

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Only one, or can I be realistic here?

​67 Melody Maker SG. Had it stolen, and I still have dreams of the guitar.

​67 or so non reverse Firebird. Sold it for mortgage payments... sigh

​68 or so, Danelectro Vincent Bell Coral Firefly. Again, stolen along with the above MM, and one that I will truly never get over.

​65 or so Gibson SG. Sold it, since I could never bond with it. Discovered later on in life that the reason I didn't bond with it, is because I sucked at the time.

​Guild M75. Again, I just didn't "bond" with it. (see above.)

​Carvin H2. Another mortgage payment, that I REALLY miss.

I think that pretty much covers it.

 

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Pretty much a tie for two guitars that I miss dearly. First was a guild Blues90 that I sold when I stopped playing for a while and thinned the heard down. This is not mine, but looked identical.

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However the biggest regret EVER of all my music equipment was having to sell my Moonstone M80 with modulus woven graphite neck. I paid $5000 for it around 1980, later got married and then was unemployed and desperate for work. I sold it while in poverty for $250 so I could buy my first computer hard drive that I needed. It was a great decision in that a month later my computer experience from college and at home got me a job in IT at NASA which became my life long career, and the Moonstone sale sealed the deal, but I will never be able to get another. Here is what it looked like except for mine having the graphite neck. The burled maple is stunning up close.

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ouch...that thing looks wickedly ok, to me :) :) I made industrial valves for NASA, among other things. Ever heard of Dresser/Masonneilan/Fisher/Crosby valve ? Just curious...Lots of "documentation" with those. "Tested" the rocket engines, so I was told...In the contract :) great job, probably the most favorite, for me.

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